Posted on 12/10/2010 10:21:34 AM PST by wmfights
The villagers were contemplating poisoning Charu when Rohan Banerjee, a Gospel for Asia-supported pastor, stopped them.
Charu had become a danger and nuisance to his village after his mental sanity dissolved. Once a hard-working farmer, Charu had attracted the jealousy of some of his neighbors because of the wealth he accrued through his toils harvesting rice paddy. They retaliated by performing black magic on him, and he went crazy. His neighbors were no longer jealous—they were terrified.
Charu's altered mental state made him violent. He would hold a knife and attempt to stab anyone who came near him. Once, he almost attacked his own wife, but she narrowly escaped. His family tied him to a post, but instead of subduing him, it made him more aggressive. So the villagers—including his own family—conspired to poison him.
As they were holding a meeting to decide what they should do with Charu, Pastor Rohan and his team of fellow missionaries came to the village. Rohan told them not to harm Charu and assured them Jesus could heal him. So the villagers let Rohan take Charu away to pray for his deliverance. Although Charu attempted to harm Rohan multiple times, God protected the pastor.
Rohan eventually brought Charu to a prayer center led by Gospel for Asia-supported missionary Turanya Kahn. She and her team interceded for Charu for 15 days, after which he returned to his normal self. Due to his apparent recovery, they sent him home.
But a few months later, Charu started acting mentally unstable again. The missionaries took him to another prayer center, where missionary Kanjri Choudhuri prayed faithfully for him. By the end of one month, God had completely healed him.
God answered the prayers of the missionaries by restoring Charu to full mental sanity. Even more miraculous than this deliverance was Charu's resulting decision: He and ten of his family members chose to follow Jesus. Pastor Rohan asks for prayer that Charu and his family will continue to live for Jesus.
But you have made a judgment by saying there are multiple faiths of equal standing. Jesus proclaimed the only way to the Father is through Him. Jesus proclaimed an exclusive faith, it's Him or nothing.
I have not made a judgement because I have not said there are multiple faiths, I have said I believe there are. I do not claim to know any of this, I just have beliefs.
I’m sure that for those that God created with that belief and for that purpose, it’s true.
I see your up to your enticments again. How many questions will you ask or create this time which none will satisfy your itchy ears?
I have heard of God the watchmaker but never God the boxmaker. Your world is filled with little boxes, all rigidly organized, sealed up and unchanging. Curious. God made you just the way you are and that is the way you are. Strange God.
I was thinking of 12, for the Christmas season.
My boxes have the luxury of changing volume, shape, color, etc., all as God wishes.
As I have said many times over the years...I may very well be right or wrong, and if I wake up tomorrow with a completely different set of beliefs...so be it.
I seek to understand you. Do you believe that God is in absolute control of and determines everything such that nothing exists except by God’s Will?
Yes
Your beliefs are best described as universal theism or Pantheism. You may choose to live in such a creation, or try to. You will, however, likely abandon such ideas when faced with the impossible idea that God is both good and evil.
If God is the progenitor of all things and nothing exists except by His will and plan He is a despot. As I said earlier, and was scolded for saying it, you are a lost soul.
If that is too personal so be it, although the Mod seems to have more trouble than you with my observation.
I will go one step further and state, in the words of Bishop E Stanley Jones, “your God is my Satan.”
I do not consider that idea to be impossible for God.
I have no trouble with your observation, as it is meaningless, just as you would have no trouble with a similar observation if I were to make one of you.
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